On the 7PHP.com site there's a new interview posted in their "It's the Tools Talking" series , this time with Chris Hartjes a.k.a. the "Grumpy Programmer". In the interview Khayrattee Wasseem asks Chris about some of his "tools of the trade" he uses in his everyday work.

The 7PHP.com site is back with their first interview with a member of the PHP community in 2016. In this latest articlePhil Sturgeon answers some questions from Khayrattee about his background, how is 2015 was and what he sees coming for the PHP community in 2016.

A little more than over 2 years ago (in June 2013), I did my 34th 7PHP interview with a young dynamic (can very much say as explosive as a dynamite as well – explosive in the good sense) named as Phil Sturgeon. I still remember at that time while I hit the “publish” button and tweeted above that interview, I unconsciously wrote Phil Surgeon instead of Sturgeon. We had a good twitter moment. Time flies and in Feb 2015, I was even able to meet Phil in person at SunshinePHP Conference in Miami.

Phil answers questions about his previous year (2015) and how the PHP community helped him through some issues he had between 2014 and early 2015. He also shares his thoughts on the current state of the PHP community and language. He mentions the difficulties happening around the PHP-FIG group and some of his predictions and advice for the PHP community in the coming year.

The 7PHP.com site has posted another in its series of spotlights on people and happenings in the PHP community. In this latest edition he talks with Cal Evans about the latest Day Camp 4 Developers evening happening Friday, September 18th: "Debugging Beyond var_dump()".

Day Camp 4 Developers is a virtual ‘mini’ PHP conference. Meaning you can watch in realtime 5 awesome speakers, talking about some cool quality stuffs, while you are comfortably seated on your sofa with your snacks and beverages. [...] It’s a new week on our PHP Calendar, specially in our Virtual PHP calendar – it’s THE week for DC4D which will be held on this upcoming Friday 18th Sept 2015 – see it all here, click! One very important thing to know, DC4D is heartily brought forward by our PHP Icon – the one and only Mr Cal Evans, together with his wife, The Lovely & Talented Kathy.

Cal answers questions about the event including:

How it all started

How he finds the speakers for the theme for each event

Some of the things he's learned from putting on the event

The interview also includes a bonus Q&A with one of the speakers, Joshua Thijssen. They talk about Joshua's motivation behind the talk, one things that people will learn from it and what he sees as the benefit of a live presentation vs recorded.

Khayrattee Wasseem talks with Jeremy about some of his work with the Seattle PHP User Group and where he'll be working in the near future (the Engrade team at McGraw-Hill Education). He also answers questions about:

What the conference is about and when it was first launched

Where the idea came from and what some of the objectives are

How the feedback has been so far

Who else has been on the team helping organize the event (and provided advice)

How they're handing sponsors and what challenges came around that

Jeremy also shares a message to thinking about attending the conference:

I honestly believe that everyone who attends, both in person and online is going to have a good experience, learn new things, and make new friends. My hope is that you will feel the strength of the PHP community and have a desire to contribute back to it afterwards.

On the 7PHP.com site Khayrettee Wasseem has posted a new interview with Ben Ramsey about the recent anniversary of the PHP language - "20 Years of PHP".

This is the 2nd serie of our #20YearsOfPHP ! YES $this->year[‘2015′] needs to be over-brimmed with lots and lots of love and happiness to celebrate this amazing unique moment. All that PHP has achieved today, is the hard work of myriads of PHP rockstar from all over the world. It’s also because of a super-fantastic group (they know who they are!) of dedicated people who are doing their utmost best to keep shaping, giving consistence to and above all safeguarding the magical community that is The PHP Community! [...] Here over 7PHP, I’m taking this a step further by interviewing some of the PHP rockstars about what they have to say about #20YearsOfPHP

In the interviewBen answers questions about some of his own experience in the PHP community, lessons he's learned over the years, why he thinks PHP has survived so long and his advice to new PHPers just starting out.

The 7PHP.com site has posted their latest PHP community interview. This time it's with a group from the Las Vegas PHP User Group about their community and group. The interview talks to Adam Englander, one of the organizers of the group.

This is the #4th set of ‘Know Thy PHP Usergroup‘ in an attempt to create more awareness of: what is $this PHP UG about + get to know the leaders/Founders/Community behind it and
what is a PHP User Group in general to personally know all the PHP user groups Around The World – that excites me and I hope you too! This concept is also a good opportunity for new #elePHPants to know about PHP UGs. [...] The Las Vegas PHP Users Group is a group dedicated to PHP developers learning from and teaching each other. [...] All skill levels are sought after. If you are looking to teach, learn, network, or just mingle, join the group and participate on the adventure.

7PHP.com has posted their latest community interview, this time with Josh Lockhart, an author behind the PHP The Right Way project and the Slim microframework. They talk some about his history with PHP, some thoughts on the current state of the language and resources/tools he recommends.

Someone finally took the responsibility to make things go in The Right Direction. And this man, this brave man, this ‘super-hero’ is here to make a change happen – he is named Mr Josh Lockhart. He is The Captain America of The PHP Community! Josh came forward with a convincing righful movement (if I can allow myself to tag it as such) to help PHP-ers get a sense of good direction when it comes to ‘dealing with/and taming’ PHP as a tool to make good software. This initiative is named as PHP The Right Way!

Josh answers other questions about his preference in environments, what he sees as the good and bad of PHP and his overall feel of the PHP community and where he feels e fits.

The ‘level of wisdom’ in them was too strong to be left there, I had to bring it out and I’m thankful to Jacques ‘TheKit’ Guy for sharing with me (and hence you) his precious experience he gained down the years and elaborating more on those quotes.

They go through each of the quotes and let Jacques expand on them a bit - why he got started with the community, some ways that people can get involved in their local group and remembering that a community is made up of more than just single actors.